Grigoriy Yavlinskiy

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

Kader ve politika: Rusya’nın en zengin adamı nasıl oldu da Rusya’nın en ünlü mahkûmu haline geliverdi? Bu belgesel, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’nin kusursuz bir sosyalistten kusursuz bir kapitaliste, sonra da Sibirya’da bir hapishanede kusursuz bir kurbana dönüşmesinin hikâyesini anlatıyor. Devlerin savaşı, Rusya’nın bu en zengin adamı Başkan Putin’e meydan okuyunca başlamıştı. Putin onu uyarsa da, hapse atılacağını bile bile New York’tan Rusya’ya dönmüştü Khodorkovsky. Milyarlarca doları olmasına rağmen neden sürgünde kalmamıştı? Sekiz yıl sonra dönmesinin sebebi neydi? Film sadece bu ilginç adamın kişisel hikâyesini değil, Rusya’nın siyasi manzarasını, yeni parayı, gücü ve arzuyu da ele alıyor.

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with interviews of top protagonists such as Mikhail Gobachev himself, the documentary recounts the critical last two years of the former USSR.

A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.

A talk show